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David Frum

To balance China, the democracies will need new friends - and India with its fast-growing economy, youthful population, and democratic politics seems the obvious candidate.

— David Frum politics

We, as conservative intellectuals, should not be in the business of making excuses for bad parliamentary decisions by Republican leaders in Congress.

— David Frum men

What I say is I am somebody who cares about conservative ideas. I want to see them implemented in governance.

— David Frum men

The big winners under the American fiscal system are the rich, who pay some of the lowest taxes anywhere in the world; the old, who are the main beneficiaries of the American social service state; farmers, rural people. These are Republican constituencies.

— David Frum people

The elite isn't leading anymore. It's trapped.

As thrilling as it was, speechwriting is ultimately frustrating for someone who wants to be a writer.

— David Frum writing

I am really and truly frightened by the collapse of support for the Republican Party by the young and the educated.

— David Frum art

In journalism I can only tell what happened. In fiction, I can show it.

— David Frum fiction

Nobody ever won an election by spitting at his political opponents.

— David Frum body

There is no right to work in a think tank, and these are very privileged positions.

— David Frum work

Think tanks do have points of view, and they are absolutely entitled to defend them.

— David Frum end

If you go on TV and say there's no other country in the world where you can be born poor and become rich, you get a huge megaphone. If you tell the truth, which is that most of the studies show actually the United States is worse than anybody except Britain in upward mobility, there is no audience for you.

— David Frum truth

Journalism can go right up to the door of the room in which the decisions are made. A novel can go inside the room - and inside the character's heads.

— David Frum character

So if I have two pieces of cake, do I have twice as good an experience as the first piece of cake? One of the things I've found in life is that the first piece of cake is the best.

— David Frum life

The great power the president has is that he is the most prominent person in the biggest media event on the planet. He has the attention of the nation and the world. When he speaks, everybody listens.

— David Frum power

My mother cared more about how you reasoned than about the conclusions you reached.

— David Frum reason

The thing that sustains a strong Fox network is the thing that undermines a strong Republican party.

— David Frum art

A novel makes it possible to understand not just events, but the people who control the events; not only their choices, but also their motives.

— David Frum people

A presidential speech is always the work of many hands.

— David Frum work

America under 30 is a more non-whites place than America over 60. And we know that non-whites and whites vote differently.

— David Frum different

Events don't happen because I write a speech. I am allowed to write a speech because events are going to happen.

— David Frum write

If right and left are competing to be the biggest victim, who is competing to be the government?

— David Frum men

Look, the media are trapped by changes in the technology and business of their industry.

— David Frum change

My view on candidates on money is unless it's proven that the donor stole the money, the campaign keeps the money.

— David Frum money

Partly because of the desperate economic situation in the country, what were once the leading institutions of conservatism are constrained.

— David Frum art

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